THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 25, 1939
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HITLER PLANS FOR DUTCH INVASION: REMARKABLE ALLEGED DETAILS FROM PARIS
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL ”)
Paris, To-day.
AMERICA'S
RELIABLE QUARTERS yesterday revealed, on the DEFENCE
basis of information from Germany, that Ger- COSTS many had completed plans to invade Holland and that the orders for attack were counter- manded only four hours before the invasion was timed to take place.
Plans for the invasion of the Netherlands were
WARM SPRINGS (GEORGIA),
TO-DAY. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE HERE YESTERDAY THAT NATIONAL DEFENCE EXPENDITURE MAY BE
drawn up by Hitler and the General Staff, and INCREASED BY $500,000,000 IN the date fixed for November 12.
Hitler is reported to have met with some opposition from General von Reichenau, up till then one of the few generals who had supported him up to the hilt.
General von Reichenau apparently was impressed by the visit to Queen Willhelmina of the King of the Bel- gians, when it was decided that Bel- gium would support the Netherlands if a Nazi Invasion occurred.
Hitler maintained his usual attitude his in the face of opposition from generals, and told General von Rei- chenau to have plans ready for the invasion by the evening of November
11.
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On the morning of November 11 Hitler again met his generals at conference at which the atmosphere was stormy. General von Reichenau again opposed Hitler's invasion plans.
BELGIUM THE UPSET
General von Reichenau said that
had the General Staff plans
been based on the expectation of Belgium remaining neutral.
for disaster.
SPECIAL
H.K.V.D.C. OFFICERS
An Ordinance to amend yet further the Volunteer Ordinance, 1933. is published in draft form in the "Gazette."
DUKE OF KENT ON LEAVE
London, To-day.
The Duke of Kent, who is in Scotland as a Rear-Admiral on the Staff of the Commander-in- Chief, Home Flest, arrived in London yesterday with the Duchess of Kent on a few days' leave.
They are staying at Bucking- ham Palace.-Reuter.
U-BOAT BATTLE
HERO, 14
A fourteen-year-old
mess-boy,
THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
Expenditure for defence would ex- ceed $2,000,000,000, and would pro-Frank Elders, survivor from the bably not reach $2,300,000,000.
President Roosevelt also disclosed that consideration is being given to a special tax to finance this expendi. ture.
PEACE IN SPRING? President Roosevelt said he had hopes that the war would end by the Spring, but gave no indication that he believed his hopes would be ful- filled.
The President revealed that the Budget would not be balanced next year, even apart from the defence out- It is explained that Regulation 3 lays, but there should be a very sub- (1) of the Hong Kong Volunteer Re-stantial decrease in the deficit.-Reu- gulations provides for the division of ter. the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps into various Corps units and Auxiliary Units and an Affiliated Unit, and paragraph (5) of the Re- gulation
alia that provides inter
GERERAL
members of an Auxiliary Unit shall APPEARED
not be required to undergo any train-
ing unless called out for actual mill-IN THE FLESH
tary service.
For administrative and other rea- sons it is considered that the officers
Here's the naked truth about a Nazi General
In the final report of the German on the Polish Supreme Command campaign, it is revealed that General von Reichenau, who was in command, was left behind when his first troops had crossed the Vistula. He decided to join them in their advanced posi- tions.
of Auxiliary Units, generally techni- cal experts, may be gazetted as of- without the previous He is stated to have warned Hitler ficers thereof
ranks of the Corps that if Belgium joined the
Nether-training in the lands, Germany was heading straight usually required in the case of officers
of Corps Units.
SPECIAL DEFINITION General von Brauchitsch broke the silence he had hitherto maintained The objects of the amending Bill is and said he would not take respon- therefore to add to the definition in sibility for the operation, He declar-section 2 of the principal Ordinance a ed that none of the officers present special definition for officers of Aux-it. could now approve of the projected iliary Units. offensive. Havas.
RATING YEAR ALSO
TO BE CHANGED
The "Gazette" contains the draft of an Ordinance for the purpose of making the Rating Year in the Co- lony coincide with the new financial year, from March to March.
FEES INCREASED
Such officers will then be in a posi- tion similar to other ranks in an au- xiliary unit in that they will not be required to undergo military training or to provide themselves with uniform until their services are necessary.
FRITZ KUHN CASE
Having no other means of crossing the river quickly, he decided to swim
German soldiers on the other bank three naked were astounded when men emerged from the Vistula.
Their astonishment was increased opened a rubber when the General bag and calmly took out his trousers
debagged and tunic. His
uniform bore his General's badges and many war decorations.
BARONESS FLIES WAR ZONE TO SEE WEDDING
Baroness Aminoff, ❤n well-known obtained special Finnish aristocrat, permission from the British Govern- ment and made a hairdous flight to Kuhn, leader of the pro-Nazi German-England for the wedding of her niece,
New York, To-day. Judge Wallace yesterday dismissed The fees chargeable by the Cus- five of the ten charges against Fritz todian of Enemy Property are in- creased by an Order of His Excel- | American Bund. lency the Governor in Council from one per cent. to two per cent.
LOOK
AT
THIS
VALUE
Miss Pamela MacDougall, to: Mr. Kuhn now faces a charge of steal- George Milles-Lade, son of the late
Reuter. ing $1,217,000.
BRITISH MADE FOR TEA SETS
6 PERSONS
5 CHARMING NEW DESIGNS
MODERN STYLE
OUR
PRICE $1250
SET.
WHITEAWAY'S
Hon. H. A. Milles-Lade, at Norton, Kent.
Relatives of the Baroness had given up hope of her being allowed to leave Finland.
"I had to travel by boat from Helsinki to Stockholm before. I was able to get a plane,' she told the press.
being "Mothers and babies evacuated from Helsinki crowded the boat. It was distressing.
"From Malmo (Sweden) I got plane. It had to fly at 10,000ft. avoid enemy aircraft. It was a very trying flight.
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"From Amsterdam we flew to an airport in the South of England. was very glad to get here, safely." Miss MacDougall, the bride, is daughter of Mrs. MacDougall, of Pro vender, and Lieutenant-Colonel H. MacDougall, of Cawston Manor, Nor- The folk, who is In South Africą. bridegroom is heir to Earl Sondes his uncle, who was best man.
steamer Heronspool, calmly told of the sinking of the ship when he reached New York after being picked up by the American liner President Hard- ing.
"The signal for action stations was sounded on the ship's siren just after six in the evening," he said. "The gun crew rushed to the gun, but couldn't see a U-boat.
"Later the U-boat signalled with lights the order to halt,
"Our answer was а shot. The
U-boat then fired once across our bows, but we kept on, and the U-boat
we could came so close
see men smoking in the turret.
"Later somebody shouted 'Here he is,' There was a terrific explosion almost immediately.
"OH, MOTHER
"Oh, mother, I'll never hear another like that.
"We took to the boats. Ours leaked badly all night, and we couldn't bail her out fast enough. The water was knee deep when we were picked up.
An encounter between two ships, believed to be British, and German patrol ship is reported by a Jutland fisherman, Max Olsan,
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A U-boat which attacked a British armed merchant ship was holed by a shot from the ship's gun and was sunk soon afterwards by a warship.
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The crew of the British steamer Sneaton, of Whitby, which was sunk by a U-boat in the Atlantic, forced at the point of a gun to cheer while a U-boat officer took a photo- graph of them in their lifeboats.
IDEAL DIET FOR DIGESTIVE DISTURBANCES
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Your
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